What went wrong with Skype?
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Microsoft rep: "I believe you are referring to Teams."
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It was bought by microsoft, that's what went wrong.
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While we are at it, what went wrong with Twitter too? Have you guys noticed Twitter kind of sucks lately?
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It was hogging port 80.
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I moved in with my online girlfriend and no longer needed it.
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It was bought by microsoft, that's what went wrong.
Yeah anyone who used Skype at the time immediately knew what went wrong
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It was bought by microsoft, that's what went wrong.
Microsoft is the EA of the Software world. It's where companies and ideas go to die.
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Complete and utter disregard for their Linux community and their reliability when they swapped off p2p and onto cloud based infrastructure was a pretty big one. It was crashing multiple times a day during that stage.
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It was bought by microsoft, that's what went wrong.
Sure, but Skype was shit even before that. It had great potential though, could have become another whatsapp.
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Having centralized authentication servers. Otherwise MS purchase of it wouldn't kill the normal Skype, and by now it'd be probably, like ship of Theseus, actualized for modern security and other requirements. Like X-Wing Alliance and WoW and Warcraft III modding, and other iconic games getting even replacement engines.
Hotline got FOSS clients at some point, some still work, some people even make new ones.
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Cant read the article due to paywall, but, nothing "went wrong" with skype, it was and has always been utter trash. Just having your username leaked was a security breach. Skype's only merit was it was the first easy to use video calling platform that combined text, audio and streaming in one.
Theres a reason why it was so easy to move my friends group off skype to discord right when discord launched, but I havent been able to convince that same group to move from discord.
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While we are at it, what went wrong with Twitter too? Have you guys noticed Twitter kind of sucks lately?
What are you, some kind of communist woke globalist radical?
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Cant read the article due to paywall, but, nothing "went wrong" with skype, it was and has always been utter trash. Just having your username leaked was a security breach. Skype's only merit was it was the first easy to use video calling platform that combined text, audio and streaming in one.
Theres a reason why it was so easy to move my friends group off skype to discord right when discord launched, but I havent been able to convince that same group to move from discord.
This essentially. It was an easy voice and more importantly videocall software that was free. There were alternatives for text (ICQ, AIM) which were nice and everyone had them, and voice (Teamspeak, Mumble) which were either not free or you had to host them yourself and neither did Videocalls. So you begrugingly had a skype account too.
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It was hogging port 80.
So it can bypass shitty firewall setups.
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It was bought by microsoft, that's what went wrong.
Exactly.
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Cant read the article due to paywall, but, nothing "went wrong" with skype, it was and has always been utter trash. Just having your username leaked was a security breach. Skype's only merit was it was the first easy to use video calling platform that combined text, audio and streaming in one.
Theres a reason why it was so easy to move my friends group off skype to discord right when discord launched, but I havent been able to convince that same group to move from discord.
Wasn't Skype the best audio/video protocol at the time? Everything else around it was terrible, but I remember that skype was the only voice call software that worked well for me on shitty connection back in the day.
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Wasn't Skype the best audio/video protocol at the time? Everything else around it was terrible, but I remember that skype was the only voice call software that worked well for me on shitty connection back in the day.
My memory says that both vent and teamspeak were way better for audio, but this was also a time where no one had a mic remotely close to the average you get today. Video, yes. But skype was really buggy and often did not even work
